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LETs Stand Public Speaking podcast - ‘Speaking up about Speaking out’ will give voice to the public speaking potential of young people. Stories will be shared about the importance of these skills, life events that require competent speaking skills and how our young people can be taught these skills, skills for life, in a structured, explicit and meaningful way. These are skills that affect us all for better or worse throughout our lives. In the course of these podcasts, you will be informed, entertained and maybe even inspired to speak up and share your story.
Changemaker Schools, Changemaker Skills and 21st Century Education - Fiona Collins, DCU.
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Changemaker Schools, Changemaker Skills and 21st Century Education - Fiona Collins, DCU.
Fiona Collins is the Network Coordinator of the DCU Changemaker Schools Programme, a collaborative professional network of schools linked to the DCU Institute of Education with a mission to reimagine, co create and lead transformation in education by developing, amplifying, and sharing the skills of empathy, creativity, leadership, and teamwork. See more here: https://www.dcuchangemakernetwork.com/
Launching in April 2021, the network with a practice to theory approach aims to support schools in developing their students as Changemakers and finding creative solutions to social problems. See here:
https://www.dcu.ie/commsteam/news/2021/apr/dcu-launches-dcu-changemaker-schools-network-support-teachers-and-students
Fiona is also a PhD candidate on the topic of leadership with Professor Dympna Devine at UCD working as a researcher in the Children's Schools Lives Study (CSL), an exciting new longitudinal cohort study of primary schooling in Ireland. See more here: .https://cslstudy.ie/ .
If you are a teacher, a parent, a student, a policy maker or anyone with an interest in education, this episode will be of interest to you. In this episode, Fiona explains what the DCU Changemaker Schools’ Network is and her role as the Network Coordinator. Aligning around common language, values and the common changemaking pillars of leadership, empathy, creativity and teamwork, there are currently 15 Primary Schools from across Ireland in the DCU Changemaker Schools’ Network which has an ambition to scale up from this number. The network comprises a professional community of like-minded individuals and schools chosen because they create systemic change in education. The vision of these schools embodies creativity, empathy, leadership and team work, with the courage and tenacity to develop a school culture that is built up and strengthened around those pillars in responding to the needs of their particular students. Changemaker schools have the ability to influence and inspire regardless of size or location and ultimately develop students as ‘changemakers’. A changemaker is someone with the skills and confidence to lead change in their home, school or community. Student voice and agency are evident in ‘Changemaker’ schools and students are empowered to realize that their voice and agency matters and makes a difference.
Fiona poignantly reminds us that “we can all remember the teacher who believed in us”. It’s so important for teachers to realize the power they have in that regard.
As Fiona points out in this conversation, the world is changing extremely fast, what worked before won’t work into the future.
How we teach must reflect how our students learn and also reflect the world they will emerge into.
Changemaker schools are shaking things up and making a meaningful difference for the students they teach. American philosopher, psychologist and educator warned: “. If we teach today's students, as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.” I hope you enjoy this episode and if you have any thoughts you’d like to add to the discussion, please leave them in the Comments for this podcast.
https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/program/ashoka-changemaker-schools
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LETs Stand Public Speaking podcast - ‘Speaking up about Speaking out’ will give voice to the public speaking potential of young people. Stories will be shared about the importance of these skills, life events that require competent speaking skills and how our young people can be taught these skills, skills for life, in a structured, explicit and meaningful way. These are skills that affect us all for better or worse throughout our lives. In the course of these podcasts, you will be informed, entertained and maybe even inspired to speak up and share your story.
